Interviews ‘In country, I feel like the magic of songwriting is still very apparent and very dominant.’ MBW profiles country music writing royalty Ashley Gorley as part of our World's Greatest Songwriters series
News Hannah Dudley named Head of Artist Promotion and Marketing at amuse The hire follows what amuse calls a "year of growth" for the label, which has 5000+ tracks within its catalog of licensed music, it says
News From Sony and Warner’s calendar Q1 results to TikTok’s A&R recruitment drive: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories from the past week – and why they matter
News Shutterstock acquires stock video marketplace Pond5 for $210m, including a library of 1.6m royalty-free music tracks Pond5's customers include the likes of Netflix, Disney, NBC, BBC and Discovery Channel
News Primary Wave buys Bob Dylan’s share of The Traveling Wilburys Included in the deal are Dylan’s master royalties and neighboring rights royalties for both Traveling Wilburys albums, as well as the 2007 box set
News Reservoir and PopArabia acquire Egyptian Record label 100COPIES Reservoir and PopArabia have also signed Egyptian rapper and singer Mohamed Ramadan to a worldwide publishing deal
Analysis Interviews The Fed just raised interest rates. So did the Bank Of England. A leading music asset valuer explains why it isn’t worrying. Citrin Cooperman's Nari Matsuura explains, in detail, why her firm's Discount Rate for music assets isn't changing
News Warner Music Group’s media and creative division, WMX, hosts inaugural NewFronts event Warner Music, via WMX, says that it now generates 56 billion monthly premium video views across its portfolio.
News Sarah Mitchell joins BMG to lead its UK-based neighbouring rights business BMG recently unveiled that it had turned over more than three quarters of a billion dollars in 2021
Interviews How ChartMetric, following a $2m seed round, is looking to change the music industry’s relationship with data Having raised seed capital last year, Chartmetric is now looking towards a fresh round of funding to help it become 'the default data analysis tool for the global music industry'
News Mike Caren’s Artist Publishing Group inks deal with Chrishan in partnership with Warner Chappell Chrishan commented: "I couldn’t be more excited to join forces with APG and continue to work with my incredible publishing family at Warner Chappell."
News Is TikTok (or ByteDance) slowly morphing into a record company? Evidence is building that such a description might one day fit...
News Splice just launched an AI-powered app that makes music with you New app CoSo uses AI to find sound samples from across the Splice catalog
Interviews ‘If the music industry wants to continue its exponential growth, its data backbone needs to become significantly more efficient.’ With partnerships in place with Warner, Deezer, FUGA and more, Verifi Media believes its patent-pending tech is a game-changer for music
News Universal Music Group revenues hit $2.46bn in Q1 2022 Top sellers for the quarter included releases from Disney’s ‘Encanto’ Soundtrack, King & Prince, The Weeknd, Fujii Kaze and Ado